Nowhere is the Biden Administration’s decision to expand the Affordable Care Act to include undocumented people who entered the U.S. as children felt more keenly than in California. Among the roughly 100,000 people in the U.S. who’ll now likely sign up for subsidized health insurance, nearly a third of those Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients will be from the Golden State alone.
“That’s a lot of people getting financial help to be covered,” said Miranda Dietz, a policy research specialist at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, which has closely tracked progress on the federal rule since it was proposed last year. “It is meaningful.”
